Fantastic Free Financial Help for Military Families

As “America’s Family Financial Expert”® I love to help families learn how to live in financial freedom. As “America’s Military Family Expert” ™ I enjoy traveling to bases around the world assisting our military members in ways they can improve their quality of life. Every now and then, those two worlds come together and I get to talk about Military Finance. In fact, our Heroes at Home Financial Event is geared toward helping military readiness through financial readiness. Recently, I’ve been able to continue that quest by becoming a part of the Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN) advisory board, a like-minded 501(c)(3) that is on a mission to connect military families with the resources they need to thrive.

I’m pleased to announce a new resource that will be coming to military families in October 2015 called MilCents. It is a one-of-a-kind financial literacy program that combines information, online events, social media conversations and free resources into a 10 –week program designed to empower all military families to get their money in gear. As the Heroes at Home tour travels to various bases around the world, we’ve seen wonderful military members who have been asked to leave the service because their finances prevent them from holding a top-secret security clearance. In some cases, the Department of Defense has a million dollars invested in these members in terms of education and military training costs, so saving these valuable human resources is beneficial to the DoD and to the military family at the same time.

While MilCents is not a part of the Heroes at Home Financial Event, it is definitely a program I can get behind because this resource will help you learn skills such as:

About elliek

Ellie Kay is the best-selling author of fifteen books and a frequent media guest on CNBC, ABC’s Nightline, MSNBC, Neil Cavuto and Fox News. Ellie is also a gifted keynote speaker, presenting to standing ovation crowds of over 8,000 people.